Despite Jerusalem's image as a city that grinds to a halt on the Sabbath, more than 200 cafes, restaurants, cinemas and other entertainment centers now stay open in non-religious Jewish areas of the city.

Some say the phrase, which means a child born to a noncitizen mother in a country that grants automatic citizenship to children born on its soil, is derogatory, while others dismiss the hubbub as "silly political correctness."